Grendel-Gene Wrote:Bwaites, the problem with your example is that you or I probably would not have shot 4 cops and published a manifesto... that makes it a bit different in my mind.
Did he shoot 4 cops? Or is that what the Mainstream Media has reported and you are willing to go along with that as convicting evidence? If you are willing to accept that at face value, are you also willing to accept their version of the need for gun control?
Did he publish the manifesto? Are you 100% sure, or was that a construct after the fact of the first deaths?
You can't have it both ways, believing what you want about one thing, while believing differently about something else.
That's why we are a nation conceived in the rule of law, and when those charged with enforcing the law step over the boundary, we are left without hope that WE can believe that they won't turn on us.
I personally believe he wrote the manifesto, and I believe he killed everyone he is accused of killing. BUT...my beliefs are NOT facts. None of those things are proven, and until proven, he has the right of the benefit of the doubt, except now he is dead, and he gets no benefit of rights.
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. - John Galt